Got it ... I had done a quick check last night to validate and I had the wrong observation because "Language" was already set by the call with the "," so it appeared to work without the comma :)
Regards, Kashyap On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 6:39 AM Alexander Burger <a...@software-lab.de> wrote: > Hi Kashyap, > > > I believe that the comma was not strictly necessary in this tweet > > https://twitter.com/PicoLispREPL/status/1542382434066788352 - the one > > before "Language". Is that correct? > > No, in fact it is very important. Without it, nothing gets translated, and > all > calls to 'f' always return the string "Language". > > The comma is a read macro: > > https://software-lab.de/doc/ref.html#macro-io > > It is normally used for collecting strings which are meant to be > translated in > an application. Any call to (locale Ctry Lang) will then translate all > strings. > In this twitter example only a single string "Language" was used though for > brevity. > > ☺/ A!ex > > > -- > UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe >
